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!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"|City of Kingston upon Hull

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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography

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|width="45%"|Status:||Unitary, City (1299)

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|[[Regions of England|Region]]:||[[Yorkshire and the Humber]]

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|Ceremonial County:||[[East Riding of Yorkshire]]

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|Traditional County:||[[Yorkshire]]

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|[[Surface area|Area]]:<br>- Total||[[List of English districts by area|Ranked 279th]]<br>[[1 E7 m²|71.45]] [[square kilometre|km&sup2;]]

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|Admin. HQ:||Kingston upon Hull

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|[[ONS coding system|ONS code]]:||00FA

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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics

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|[[Population]]:<br>- Total ([[2003]] est.)<br>- [[Density]]||[[List of English districts by population|Ranked 39th]]<br>247,942<br>3,470 / km&sup2;

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|Ethnicity:||97.7% White

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!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics

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|colspan=2 align=center|Hull City Council<br>http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/

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|[[Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors|Leadership]]:||Leader & Cabinet

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|Executive:||[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]

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|[[MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005|MPs]]:||[[Alan Johnson]], [[Diana Johnson]], [[John Prescott]]

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'''Hull''' or '''Kingston upon Hull''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] city situated on the north bank of the [[Humber]] estuary. It is surrounded by the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]], but is a [[unitary authority]]. The council is today called [[Hull City Council]], and refers to the city as Hull.

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This page is for nearly Featured-standard articles that need the final checking by peers before being nominated as [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates|Featured article candidates]]. '''Requests for peer review''' are listed here to expose articles to closer scrutiny than they might otherwise receive. See [[:Category:Wikipedia style guidelines]] and [[:Category:Wikipedia how-to]] for advice on writing [[Wikipedia:How to write a great article|great articles]]. Or look at the discussion of [[Wikipedia:The perfect article|the perfect article]] and try to reach as many of those ideals as possible. If an article needs extensive work, please list it on [[Wikipedia:Pages needing attention|Pages needing attention]], [[Wikipedia:Requests for expansion|Requests for expansion]] or [[Wikipedia:Cleanup|Cleanup]]. Please list article content disputes on [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment|Requests for comment]] rather than here.

Unlike many other aged English [[City status in the United Kingdom|cities]], Hull has no [[cathedral]]. It does, however, contain the [[Holy Trinity, Hull|Holy Trinity]] Church, which claims to be the largest [[parish church]] in [[England]].

'''Note:''' [[Peer review]] is the process of review by peers and usually implies a group of authoritative reviewers who are equally familiar and expert in the subject. The process represented by this page is not formal peer review in that sense and articles that undergo this process cannot be assumed to have greater authority than any other.

Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes [[Wilberforce House]], Hull and East Riding Museum, the [[Ferens Art Gallery]], the Maritime Museum, Streetlife and Transport Museum, the [[Spurn Lightship]], the [[Arctic Corsair]] and [[The Deep (Aquarium)|the Deep]]. It also features the [[University of Hull]] as well as a smaller campus for the [[University of Lincoln]], and a large [[Further Education|FE]] college, [[Hull College]]. Hull is the home of the [[Queen's Gardens, Hull|Queens Gardens]], the [[Hull Marina]] and is close to the [[Humber Bridge]], the fourth-longest single-span suspension bridge in the world.

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The city has a [[Football (soccer)|football]] team playing at [[English Football League teams|national league]] level, [[Hull City A.F.C.|Hull City]], who play at the [[Kingston Communications Stadium]].

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The city has two [[Rugby League]] teams, [[Hull FC]] in the [[Super League (Europe)|Super League]] who, along with Hull City AFC, play at the Kingston Communications Stadium and [[Hull Kingston Rovers]] in League One of the [[Rugby League National Leagues|National Leagues]] playing at "New" Craven Park.

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Hull is the only city in the UK with its own independent [[telephone]] network company, [[Kingston Communications]], with its distinctive cream [[Telephone booth|telephone boxes]]. Formed in the [[1910s]] as a municipal department by the City Council, it remains the only locally-operated telephone company in the UK, although now privatised. Kingston upon Hull has one of the most advanced [[computer network]]s in the world &mdash; a [[metropolitan area network]].

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The local [[Accent (linguistics)|accent]] is distinctive and noticeably different from the standard [[Yorkshire dialect and accent|Yorkshire accent]]. The most notable feature of the accent is the strong "[[goat fronting]]"; a word like ''goat'', which is {{IPA|[g&#601;&#650;t]}} in [[Standard English|standard (southern) English]] and {{IPA|[go&#720;t]}} across most of Yorkshire, becomes {{IPA|[g&#629;&#720;t]}} ("''geurt''") in and around Hull.

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Hull's daily newspaper is the ''[[Hull Daily Mail]]''. [[BBC Radio Humberside]], [[Viking FM]], and the University of Hull's [[Jam 1575]] all broadcast to the city.

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Transport within the city is provided by two main bus operators &mdash; [[Stagecoach in Hull]] and [[East Yorkshire Motor Services]]. A smaller operator, Alpha Bus and Coach, provides one of the three [[Park and Ride]] services in the city, whilst East Yorkshire and Stagecoach provide the other two.

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Hull is twinned with [[Freetown, Sierra Leone|Freetown]] in [[Sierra Leone]], [[Niigata, Niigata|Niigata]] in [[Japan]], [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] in the [[USA]], [[Reykjavik]] in [[Iceland]], [[Rotterdam]] in the [[Netherlands]] and [[Szczecin]] in [[Poland]]. [[Hull, Massachusetts]] in the USA is named for this city, as is [[Hull, Quebec]], which is part of the [[Canada|Canadian]] national capital region.

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== History ==

The original settlement of Wyke, or Wyke-Upon-Hull, was probably established by the [[Cistercian]] monastery of [[Meaux Abbey|Meaux]]. A few miles upstream of the modern city, the port was used by the abbey for distribution of its wool. The ___location became strategically important to the English in [[Wars of Scottish Independence|conflict]] with the [[Scotland|Scottish]] in the late [[13th century]]. [[Edward I of England|Edward I]] selected the site for its ideal proximity to his kingdom's adversary. Kingston-Upon-Hull was an advantageous port from which to launch his campaigns, sufficiently deep within the boundaries of England to afford security. The associated [[royal charter]], dated [[April 1]], [[1299]] remains preserved in Hull's [[Guildhall Archives]].

[[Image:Humber_Bridge.png|thumb|Humber Bridge from the south side]]

The charter of [[1440]], constituted Kingston upon Hull a corporate town and granted that instead of a Mayor and Baliffs there should be a Mayor, Sheriff and twelve Aldermen who should be Justices of the Peace within the town and county.

Hull was a major port during the Later [[Middle Ages]] and its merchants traded widely to ports in Northern [[Germany]], [[Baltic Region|the Baltics]] and the [[Low Countries]]. Wool, cloth and hides were exported, and timber, wine, furs and dyestuffs imported. Leading merchant, Sir [[William de la Pole]], helped establish a family prominent in government. Bishop [[John Alcock (bishop)|John Alcock]], founder of [[Jesus College, Cambridge|Jesus College]] and patron of the grammar school in Hull, hailed from another Hull mercantile family. Hull grew in prosperity and importance during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This is reflected in the construction of a number of fine, distinctively decorated brick buildings of which Wilberforce House (now a museum dedicated to the life of [[William Wilberforce]]) is a rare survival.

In [[1642]] Hull's governor Sir [[John Hotham]] declared for the [[Parliamentarian]] cause and later refused [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] entry into the City and access to its large arsenal. He was declared a traitor and despite a parliamentarian pardon was later executed. (He was actually executed by the parliamentarians, not the royalists, when he tried to change sides.) This series of events was to precipitate the [[English Civil War]] since Charles I felt obliged to respond to the 'insult' by besieging the City; an event that played a critical role in triggering open conflict between the Parliamentarian and [[Royalist]] causes.

Hull developed as a British trade port with mainland [[Europe]], [[Whaling]] until the mid 19th Century and deep sea fishing until the [[Anglo-Icelandic Cod War]] [[1975]]-[[1976]], which resolution led to a major decline in Hull's economic fortune. It remains a major port dealing mostly with bulk commodities and commercial road traffic by [[RORO ferry]] to [[Rotterdam]] and [[Zeebrugge]] on mainland Europe. The city remains a UK centre of food processing.

Because of its docks and proximity to continental Europe the city sustained particularly significant damage in bombing raids during the [[Second World War]] and much of the city centre was devastated. Most of the centre was rebuilt in the years following the war, but it is only recently that the last of the "temporary" car parks that occupied the spaces of destroyed buildings have been redeveloped.

Hull's administrative status has changed several times. It had been a [[county borough]] within the East Riding for many decades, but from [[1974]] to [[1996]] it was part of [[Humberside]], and upon the abolition of that county, it was made a unitary authority.

In 2003 Hull came top of the [[Crap Towns]] survey in the book edited by [[Sam Jordison]] and Dan Kieran. Two years later it was also named as the worst town in the UK in a Channel 4 television programme.

==Notable residents==

*[[Andrew Marvell]], poet and parliamentarian grew up in Hull and represented the town in Parliament. A secondary [[school]] is named after him in the Bilton Grange area of the city.

*[[William Wilberforce]], the leading slavery abolitionist, was born in Hull [[1759]], baptised at Holy Trinity church and represented the City as its Member of Parliament until his death in [[1833]]. A sixth form college is named after him in east the city.

*[[Joseph Malet Lambert]], a [[United Kingdom|British]] education reformer who proposed universal education as an economic stimulus was born in Hull in [[1853]]. A secondary school in the east of the city is named after him.

*[[Thomas R. Ferens]] philanthropist, industrialist and Member of Parliament for East Hull from [[1906]]-[[1918]], proved to be one of the city's greatest benefactors, endowing among others [[University of Hull|University College]], the Ferens Art Gallery, and East Park in [[1927]].

*[[Amy Johnson]], the pioneering aviator who was the first woman to fly solo from England to [[Australia]], was born in Hull in [[1903]]. A statue depicting her can be found near to the city centre's main Library.

*Though not born in the city, the notorious [[arson]]ist and [[serial killer]] [[Bruce George Peter Lee|Bruce Lee]] lived in Hull and committed his crimes there in the [[1970s]].

*[[Sir Tom Courtenay|Tom Courtenay]], the highly respected actor, was born in Hull.

*[[Roland Gift]], actor and singer with the [[Fine Young Cannibals]], was born in Hull in [[1962]].

*Hull is also the adopted home of [[Paul Heaton]], of [[The Housemartins]] and now [[The Beautiful South]]. The other members of the Beautiful South are all from Hull.

*[[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] Weatherman [[Alex Deakin]] comes from the area.

*[[Kelly Bailey]], singer, model and dramatic actress was born in Hull in [[1981]].

*[[Jon Culshaw]], the impressionist and comedian, began his career as a DJ on Hull station Viking FM.

*[[Stevie Smith]], poet, was born in Hull.

*[[Lionel Davidson]], novelist, was born in Hull.

*[[Philip Larkin]], poet and librarian, worked in [[Hull University]].

*[[Douglas Dunn]], poet, worked in Hull.

*[[Maureen Lipman]], actress.

*[[Ian Carmichael]], actor.

*[[Brian Rix]], actor.

*[[Nick Barmby]], footballer.

*[[Mick Ronson]], guitarist with [[David Bowie]]'s Spiders From Mars and musical partner of [[Ian Hunter]].

*[[Reece Shearsmith]], comedian, born in Hull

*[[Thomas Perronet Thompson]], radical reformer, MP and advocate of universal [[suffrage]] was born in Hull in [[1783]].

*[[Rob Hubbard]], a very famous Commodore 64 SID6581 composer was born in Hull.

*[[Gerald Thomas]], famous Carry-On director was born in Hull.

Hull had a thriving music scene in the early eighties with bands such as [[The Red Guitars]], [[Jane's Plane]], [[Bushfire]], [[The Housemartins]], and [[Everything But the Girl]] (who took their name from a local furniture shop's [[advertising slogan]]). The Housemartins and EBTG went on to achieve international fame, and to a lesser extent, so did the Red Guitars. Bushfire moved down to London and became well known on the music scene there, while Jane's Plane, an all-women band of great local popularity, broke up. Later, the Hull band Kingmaker achieved moderate chart success. [[Roland Gift]] DJed at local nightclub Spiders and owned another nightclub in the city. The city currently has a moderately large [[hardcore punk]] and [[emo]] music scene.

The Music scene in Hull is thriving at present with over a hundred bands playing at various venues across the city throughout the week. Some bands have gone on to receive national recognition. Fonda 500 and Freaks Union are regularly playlisted on MTV and The Paddingtons have been signed by former Oasis mentor Alan McGee and have had two singles enter the UK's Top 30. The Adelphi is still probably the most famous of venues in the city having hosted the likes of Radiohead, Stone Roses, Mardrae, The Fabulators and Oasis back in their formative years. Just recently in the last two years, The Sesh at Linnet & Lark has hosted weekly Live Music events with attendances averaging 300+.

Bands to take note of include <a href="www.ernestnet.com">ERNEST</a>, The Landau's, Turismo, The Applewhites, Dirty Dreamers, The Bonnitts, Last People On Earth and the 59 Violets.

==External links==

* [http://www.vrhull.co.uk/ Virtual Reality Tour Of Hull]

* [http://www.holy-trinity.org.uk/ Holy Trinity church]

* [http://www.theadelphi.com/ The Adelphi Club]

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